logo

Quotes About Retribution

Anyone who deprived her of something she wanted deserved what he got.
~ Jim Thompson
had decided while she was in bed that she would never speak to her again. But she wanted Marnie to see her. She wanted her to look out of her window and see her down there on the staithe, and remember the mean, cruel thing she had done. If
~ Joan G. Robinson
how widespread is the view that a criminal trial is not about determining facts and repairing the breach crime creates in the social fabric but about enlisting state power for the satisfaction of the aggrieved individual.
~ Joann Wypijewski
OH, SOMEBODY ASIDES ME IS GONNA RUE THIS HERE PARTICULAR DAY.
~ Joanna Russ
True story," Horse chimed in. "Fuck with us, we'll fuck you back. Harder. Always.
~ Joanna Wylde
Murphy biked circles around the courthouse parking lot like an evil newspaper boy from one of her favorite movies, Better Off Dead . She and Judge Miller Abbott didn't have a great history. Since she'd hit puberty, he'd seen her through two shoplifting convictions, countless underage alcohol issues, a few streaking episodes, and the time she'd mutilated the Bob's Big Boy "Big Boy.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and there's a lot of 'em. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. I've earned it. I've deserved it. I've sought it out. Such is my punishment.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You will get such flattery as you deserve, and my foot in your arse the rest of the time.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Deep down she approved of his kind of 'an eye for an eye' justice.
~ Anna Smith
I was her punishment, certainly, she thinks, taking the empty suitcase out from under the bed. As she was mine. But remind me again of our crime?
~ Annabel Lyon
If you break the agreements with the terra indigene , the terra indigene will strike back and strike hard.
~ Anne Bishop
I shall wash blood with blood to get rid of the defilement—
~ Anne Carson
If someone burns out your eye I will take your socket and use it for an ashtray.
~ Anne Sexton
What happened to you? Did you finally annoy someone enough to have them beat the shit out of you?
~ Anne Stuart
When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.
~ Blase J. Cupich
You can't do people wrong. You can't do people dirty or put people's life in jeopardy and expect to walk away freely and just continue to live this happy and prosperous life. That's not how the universe and the way of life works.
~ Lexi Underwood
Revenge proves its own executioner.
~ John Ford
O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
~ Euripides
Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.
~ Euripides
I am a curse upon your house as well.
~ Euripides
Bloodthirsty bitches
~ Euripides
And for thee, who didst me all that evil, I prophesy an evil doom.
~ Euripides
Seni hak ettiÄŸin ÅŸekilde cezaland?rd?m ya, art?k bana diÅŸi aslan ya da Tyrheneli Skylla desen de hiç umurumda deÄŸil!
~ Euripides
I'll tell you God's truth." His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald